- Beth Crook
- AT BRASS TACKS A baby doll smoking a cigar in a cage.
So. Many. New. Restaurants. In. Seattle. It is overwhelming. Just in the last couple months, six new restaurants have opened on Capitol Hill alone. Six! Plus two pop-ups! By the time you read this, there's probably a seventh—Freddy's, a hamburger place from the owner of Rancho Bravo (his name is Freddy). [Note: Freddy's is not open. Yet. That I know of. I'll go check again.] And it's happening all over town: more and more and MORE places to eat food. Local food blogs put up posts like "The 47 Most-Anticipated Restaurant Openings This Summer."
As a human professionally obligated to keep up with all this, I need another stomach, or maybe a wholesale clone (she would live such a good life!). Meanwhile, there are places that get tried, then lost in the shuffle—good neighborhood places, places with really nice people working there, ones that it's a shame to leave never mentioned just because they don't have a name-brand chef or a trendy menu.
Here are three new restaurants I tried recently that I would totally go back to if there weren't 47 other new places waiting.
[HINT: They are Brass Tacks, in Georgetown; Resto, on Capitol Hill; and La Cocina Oaxaqueña, also on Capitol Hill.]
